OpenOffice and dark themes

MartinZ · 2007-09-03 04:02:24

I think I should post this in an OpenOffice forum, but I feel more comfortable here...

I'm using a dark gtk theme in xfce, Neutronium. Almost everything looks great, but OpenOffice (I read elsewhere that OpenOffice and Firefox look bad with dark themes because of something with the gtk engine they use). The worst goes for Impress. I guess one image show more than 1000 words, so here it is:

I even lose the background!!

I discovered a trick that partialy solves it, but i shall do this every time Impress is started:

But, as you can see, it doesn't fix the display in both sidebars.

Tables are also shown wrong.

So here comes the question: is there a way to make OpenOffice use a different (lighter) gtk theme? I know i may load it with force KDE and then it should use a different theme, but this way it doesn't integrate so nice with my desktop...

Thanks in advance

Mefju · 2007-09-03 09:56:54

I'm also using dark theme, and to restore functionality with Open Office I switched colors in options to white background and black text. It fixes this issue in all componets including Impress.

MartinZ · 2007-09-06 03:09:06

First of all, thanks for replying.
I did that with partial succes. The pics posted above already have such options.

kotyz · 2007-10-16 16:40:10

Setting white background and black text only works in writer and calc. It has no effect in Impress
Fortunatelly the other trick works for me

a1ex · 2007-10-16 16:59:41

What about the Ubuntu Studio Theme? I remember it has white backgrounds, maybe they solved the problem.

MartinZ · 2007-10-19 02:15:50

kotyz wrote:

Fortunatelly the other trick works for me

Sorry, but what do you mean with "the other trick"?

AndyRTR · 2007-10-19 05:36:35

http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=80636 - go on and make good suggestions and feature requests.

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OpenOffice and dark themes

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